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The Freight Buyers' Club discusses Unilever: automation investment

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what Unilever did is they basically redesigned the process. So technology, AI was going to process the, you know, through the candidates in a very automated way, identify patterns, narrow the field. But then when it comes time to hiring, it remained up to the human.

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  • “what Unilever did is they basically redesigned the process. So technology, AI was going to process the, you know, through the candidates in a very automated way, identify patterns, narrow the field. But then when it comes time to hiring, it remained up to the human.”

    Nada SandersThe Freight Buyers' ClubView

  • “in this case, I think the example that we started with was the hiring process, where basically they're using technology to handle this high volume, early stage screening while preserving human involvement for the consequential decision.”

    Nada SandersThe Freight Buyers' ClubView

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The Freight Buyers' Club
Speaker
Nada Sanders
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Event date
Sep 2026

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